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ShittySonicDev1 year ago

The killer whale and the mushroom boss fights were pretty fun but this game really needs more hit feedback and better game feel in general. The small mushrooms were also pretty hard to hit and I don't know what the C key action does.

There were also a  lot of weird instant kill cheap shots like with the killer whale's offscreen attack. I was also not a fan of how small the arenas were because you barely had any space to move in them. That removes depth from the game because you can only fight in close-range so there is less risk/reward involved as with larger arenas you can play in a safe way by focusing on avoiding boss' attacks and only attacking after the boss does punishable attacks.

I think allowing the player to attack in all-8 directions, adding a weak projectile attack and making the game faster would also make it more fun

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Trick1 year ago

thanks for playing, I appreciate the feedback. 

as the other anon said I'll try to implement a method to show where you're hitting, I'll reduce the small mushrooms amount or give them longer lifetime.

the arena is screen-sized because it allowed me to focus on creating more basic AI patterns for attacks and ignore enemy movement, as a beginner. it was a compromise. it's not full screen size to allow for enemies to retreat to safety and use projectile attacks, or have "huge" enemies not be off screen(I can't afford zooming out, that'd ruin the pixel art)

The whale has a shadow appearing to warn you when it's rising so the player is supposed to notice that after dying, I think. for the other attacks I plan to add some other alert method so the player is better prepared. 

C was for guarding which is currently scrapped because I couldn't find a reason why it should be used over dodging, instead thinking that creating fun patterns to dodge would be better.

limiting dash and jump to cardinal directions was intentional to encourage player precision, regarding attacking backwards that's probably true(also awkward to draw), I haven't implemented it because I was planning enemies to mostly be in front of the player but with my current enemy design you're punished for being higher up in the arena which isn't fun.

the gamefeel needs tightening so I'll work on that!

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